The Sediments of Time : Houghton Mifflin : 9781094145907 : 1094145904 : 10 Nov 2020 : Meave Leakey&;s thrilling, high-stakes memoir&;written with her daughter Samira&;encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines of the hunt for our human origins, a quest made all the more notable by her stature as a woman in a highly competitive, male-dominated field. In The Sediments of Time, preeminent paleoanthropologist Meave Leakey brings us along on her remarkable journey to reveal the diversity of our early pre-human ancestors and how past climate change drove their evolution. She offers a fresh account of our past, as recent breakthroughs have allowed new analysis of her team&;s fossil findings and vastly expanded our understanding of our ancestors.   Meave&;s own personal story is replete with drama, from thrilling discoveries on the shores of Lake Turkana to run-ins with armed herders and every manner of wildlife, to raising her children and supporting her renowned paleo